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Meaning of adept, disburse, aural, disrupt, disintegrate, distort, divert, ambidextrous, proficient, ardent

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Meaning of adept (adjective)
forms: adept; adapter; adept est

highly skilled; proficient; expert

Example
He was adept at finding solutions in electronic problems.
He is a media manipulator of genius, so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape, waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped.

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Meaning of disburse (verb)
forms: disbursed; disbursing; disburses

to pay out; to give away, usually funds

Example
A judgment against the defendant will cause him to disperse the last of his savings to the other party.

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Meaning of aural (adjective)
forms: more aural; most aural; less aural; least aural

regarding the perceptions of the ear

Example
His aural abilities were great.
Although the British profession has not adopted a multi-media outlook with the celerity that many would wish, there are plenty of examples of public libraries with visual and aural collections, and the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset and Leicestershire have in recent years been offering significant audio-visual services to teachers and schools.

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Meaning of disrupt (verb)
forms: disrupted; disrupting; disrupts

to break up

Example
A loud drunk can disrupt any social gathering.
The crowds, eventually numbering in the thousands, evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town, disrupting traffic while shouting "No blood for oil" and finally rallying at the United Nations building.

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Meaning of disintegrate (verb)
forms: disintegrated; disintegrating; disintegrates

to fall apart

Example
Oil can cause rubber to disintegrate.
More shamefully, some owners of newly acquired imposing homes delight in "libraries" which, seen in the gloom or at a distance, bestow a pretty glow of opulence and erudition but which, at close quarters, disintegrate into a heterogeneous muddle of worthless books, sometimes bought in bulk.
Equally important for vulnerable areas is the availability of safety glass -- toughened or laminated: toughened glass -- resists some impact, and shatters into harmless fragments when broken; laminated glass is much more difficult to break, and is held together by clear plastic film between the layers of glass, so won't disintegrate.

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Meaning of distort (verb)
forms: distorted; distorting; distorts

to present incorrectly (e.g. facts)

Example
The newspaper is known to distort facts people that advertise in their paper.
Much of the anxiety among Members, particularly the opponents of televising, arose from fears that the broadcasters would not preserve a proper balance in their selection of matter to be covered and that they would, in their desire to present newsworthy stories, distort the public presentation of the House.

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Meaning of divert (verb)
forms: diverted; diverting; diverts

to turn from a course (e.g. a stream)

Example
A dam, if placed properly, can divert a river to a desired destination.

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Meaning of ambidextrous (adjective)
forms: more ambidextrous; most ambidextrous; less ambidextrous; least ambidextrous

equally skilled at using both hands

Example
He has been ambidextrous his whole life.
Few of us are naturally ambidextrous but in terms of karate technique this can be achieved through training.

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Meaning of proficient (adjective)
forms: proficient; more proficient; most proficient; less proficient; least proficient

skilled and effective

Example
She was found to be quite proficient in her law career.

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Meaning of ardent (adjective)
forms: more ardent; most ardent; less ardent; least ardent

passionate

Example
He was an ardent student of classic literature.
Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the "primacy of the interests of the nation state", which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such "primacy".

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